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==== Various Aphorisms ==== | ==== Various Aphorisms ==== | ||
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* "Una bedda jurnata nun fa stati." | * "Una bedda jurnata nun fa stati." | ||
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+ | * "Post nubila Phoebus.: (eng. Sun comes after the rain.) | ||
+ | * “Svi cvjetovi budućnosti su u sjemenu sadašnjosti.” (eng. All the flowers of the future are in the seed of the present) | ||
+ | * “Niko ne zna šta se iza brda valja.” (eng. No one knows what rolls behind the mountain) | ||
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+ | * “Ne guli kore da ne bude gore!” (eng. Don't peel the bark, it might get worse) | ||
+ | * “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery | ||
+ | * Proverbs for weather forecasts in German and Croatian: http:// | ||
+ | * "Vatra vatru ne žeže." | ||
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+ | * "I voda zube ima." (Water has teeth too) | ||
+ | * "More nevjerno polje." | ||
+ | * "Što više grmi, manje dažda nahodi." | ||
+ | * "Što leto pocepa, to zima ne okrpi." | ||
+ | * "Da nema vjetra, pauci bi nebo premrežili." | ||
+ | * "Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom." | ||
+ | * "Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji. " (eng. When it thunders, everyone is afraid of themselves) | ||
+ | * Make hay when the sun shines | ||
+ | * When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year. | ||
+ | * No chicken will fall into a fire the second time | ||
+ | * Life like a fire begins in smoke and end in ashes | ||
+ | * It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire | ||
+ | * If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you | ||
+ | * If you have a head of wax you should not go near the fire | ||
+ | * Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor | ||
+ | * No year has two summers | ||
+ | * Better a small fire that warms than a big fire than burns you | ||
+ | * Summer will not last forever | ||
+ | * During the winter eat long fishes, during the summer eat short fishes. | ||
+ | * When the weather changes, the beast sneezes. | ||
+ | * When the cat hops around, bad weather is on the way. | ||
+ | * Furious storm passes quickly | ||
+ | * A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous. | ||
+ | * The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden | ||
+ | * Much science, much sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1:18) | ||
+ | * Experience is the mother of science | ||
+ | * We are the authors of our own disasters | ||
+ | * The past is the future of the present | ||
+ | * He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. | ||
+ | * Whosoever chooses to deny their past can not expect to find a future. | ||
+ | * Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future. | ||
+ | * All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present | ||
+ | * Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting. | ||
+ | * The future struggles against being mastered. | ||
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